diff --git a/certbot-dns-ovh/setup.py b/certbot-dns-ovh/setup.py
index 258c7f0f107..e0ce785a189 100644
--- a/certbot-dns-ovh/setup.py
+++ b/certbot-dns-ovh/setup.py
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@
     'certbot>=0.21.1',
     'dns-lexicon>=2.2.1', # Support for >1 TXT record per name
     'mock',
-    # For pkg_resources. >=1.0 so pip resolves it to a version cryptography
-    # will tolerate; see #2599:
-    'setuptools>=1.0',
+    'setuptools',
     'zope.interface',
 ]